Enscribe Programmer's Guide

About This Manual
This manual documents the Enscribe database record manager. It is written for programmers,
database designers, and analysts whose job is to design, develop, and maintain database
applications to be executed on HP NonStop™ systems.
Organization of This Manual
DescriptionSection
Provides an overview of Enscribe featuresChapter 1: Introducing the Enscribe Record Manager
Describes how to use primary and alternate keys for
positioning within structured files
Chapter 2: Positioning Within Structured Files
Summarizes the use of various system procedures that allow
you to create and manipulate Enscribe files.
Chapter 3: System Procedures
Presents file creation and file access information that allow
you to create and manipulate Enscribe files.
Chapter 4: General File Creation and Access Information
Describes how to create and access unstructured files.Chapter 5: Unstructured Files
Describes how to create and access key-sequenced files.Chapter 6: Key-Sequenced Files
Describes how to create and access queue files.Chapter 7: Queue Files
Describes how to create and access entry-sequenced files.Chapter 8: Entry-Sequenced Files
Describes how to create and access relative files.Chapter 9: Relative Files
Describes the various file-locking and record-locking
capabilities.
Chapter 10: File and Record Locking
Describes the various types of errors that can occur in the
Enscribe environment.
Chapter 11: Errors and Error Recovery
Provides a set of examples illustrating how to load data
into various types of Enscribe files.
Chapter 12: File Loading
Shows the ASCII character set.Appendix A: ASCII Character Set
Describes the block format for Enscribe structured format 1
and 2 files (key-sequenced, queue, entry-sequenced, and
relative).
Appendix B: Block Formats of Structured Files
Shows how file-system operations affect file currency
information.
Appendix C: Action of Current Key, Key Specifier, and Key
Length
Related Manuals
These HP NonStop manuals provide additional information that you might want to have available
for reference:
• Guardian Procedure Calls Reference Manual
• Guardian Programmer’s Guide
• Guardian Disk and Tape Utilities Reference Manual
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